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Cool! Which OCR engine/model do you use?

• pierre 3y ago
  EasyOCR, may switch to paddleOCR in the future.
  • vikp 3y ago
    You may want to try https://github.com/VikParuchuri/surya https://github.com/VikParuchuri/surya (I'm the author). I've only benchmarked against tesseract, but it outperforms it by a lot (benchmarks in repo). Happy to discuss. You could also try https://github.com/VikParuchuri/marker https://github.com/VikParuchuri/marker for general PDF parsing (I'm also the author) - it seems like you're more focused on tables.
    • pryelluw 3y ago
      Thanks for sharing.
    • raffraffraff 3y ago
      How does surya compare to AWS Textract? A previous employer went through a bunch of different OCRs and ended up using Textract because they found it to be the most accurate overall.
      • vikp 3y ago
        I unfortunately haven't had time to benchmark against more than tesseract.
      • kergonath 3y ago
        That’s my experience as well. I am still looking for alternatives, but Textract is now the baseline.
  • helloericsf 3y ago
    Grateful for your insight! Could you explain the reason for the switch? Is there any benchmark data available for sharing?
    • pierre 3y ago
      Performance depend on the language / type of docs. Main reason for contemplating switching is that easyOCR seems to not be maintained anymore (no commit in the repo in last 5 months)
  • joaquincabezas 3y ago
    PaddleOCR works pretty well, how are you planning to integrate it in your workflow? I found huge differences in throughput between python serving and frameworks (i.e. NVIDIA Triton Inference Server).